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Temporary Suspension of Additional Duties to Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States with Respect to Alcoholic Beverages, Dairy, and Motor Vehicles
Policy

Temporary Suspension of Additional Duties to Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States with Respect to Alcoholic Beverages, Dairy, and Motor Vehicles

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 1.  In Proclamation 11046 of July 20, 2026 (Imposing Additional Duties to Offset Canadian D…

Enterprise managed settings in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains
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Enterprise managed settings in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains

GitHub Copilot for JetBrains now supports enterprise managed settings for plugin governance, MCP server access, OpenTelemetry, and permission modes. Administrat…

How NVIDIA scales expertise with ChatGPT Work
Labs

How NVIDIA scales expertise with ChatGPT Work

NVIDIA teams use ChatGPT Work to reduce manual tasks, connect fast-moving signals, and scale successful workflows globally.…

Claude Code v2.1.235
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.235

OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face
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OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including i…

President Trump Delivers the Largest Drop in Violent Crime in American History
Policy

President Trump Delivers the Largest Drop in Violent Crime in American History

President Donald J. Trump and his Administration have delivered the most dramatic decline in violent crime in American history. According to the FBI’s newly rel…

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale
Practice

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available, enabling AI agents to autonomously transact at scale with built-in spending guardrails, protocol-a…

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
Labs

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

OpenAI is strengthening monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models. See how new safeguards are guiding the pace of model development.…

Strengthening Democratic Oversight in National Security
Labs

Strengthening Democratic Oversight in National Security

OpenAI launches an initiative to strengthen democratic oversight of AI in national security, supporting government institutions with tools, training, and expert…

Reinventing the European pulp and paper operating model
Practice

Reinventing the European pulp and paper operating model

Europe’s pulp and paper industry faces weaker demand, rising costs, and growing competition. The next frontier will focus on operations, commercial management, …

Improve contract search accuracy with auto-generated filters in Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Improve contract search accuracy with auto-generated filters in Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we describe how AIDA works at a high level and how it helps address these challenges — grounding users in the right contracts, under the right leg…

How Jumio built a real-time feature store on AWS
Practice

How Jumio built a real-time feature store on AWS

Learn how Jumio built a centralized, real-time feature store on AWS with Amazon SageMaker Feature Store, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, and Amazon Kin…

Implement vector-prompt document classification using Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Implement vector-prompt document classification using Amazon Bedrock

Learn how to build a multi-agent document classification solution on Amazon Bedrock using the Strands Agents SDK. Three specialized agents combine textual analy…

Customize Amazon Quick embedded chat into your application
Practice

Customize Amazon Quick embedded chat into your application

Amazon Quick embedded chat brings a conversational AI interface into your web application. This post walks through customizing the embedded chat with container …

Building cost-effective, high-throughput gen AI workflows in Google Dataflow
Practice

Building cost-effective, high-throughput gen AI workflows in Google Dataflow

Real-time streaming pipelines are the operational backbone of modern enterprises, continuously processing everything from customer support interactions to trans…

How Box is unlocking multimodal enterprise agents with Gemini Embeddings 2
Practice

How Box is unlocking multimodal enterprise agents with Gemini Embeddings 2

Enterprise content management is experiencing its biggest architectural shift since the cloud migration era. For years, enterprises have stored trillions of gig…

How Axonius built secure multi-tenant AI agents on Bedrock AgentCore
Practice

How Axonius built secure multi-tenant AI agents on Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how Axonius, a cybersecurity SaaS provider, used Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to deploy fully isolated, multi-tenant AI agents across hundreds of customer env…

Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
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Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex

Asana used OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, completing work expected to take five years for about $12K.…

Presidential Message on National Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Week
Policy

Presidential Message on National Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Week

The citizen warriors of the National Guard and Reserve carry forward a tradition as old as our Republic itself, building careers in the communities they serve w…

dotnet-1.18.0
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dotnet-1.18.0

Firefox’s Smart Window promises a better AI browser
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Firefox’s Smart Window promises a better AI browser

Starting today, AI chats in Firefox's Smart Window AI browsing mode can pull from current web info and show source links in chat responses through a partnership…

Do you use a personal agent?
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Do you use a personal agent?

Give AI a complete history of your desktop activity…

Building operational resilience with agentic AI in financial services
Practice

Building operational resilience with agentic AI in financial services

For financial institutions, operational resilience has long been embedded in regulatory and supervisory expectations — to say nothing of the high expectations o…

Sharing a new way to work with Stable Audio
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Sharing a new way to work with Stable Audio

We’re sharing two new ways for you to use Stable Audio 3.0. We now have a DAW plugin and a more advanced generation experience on StableAudio.com.…

Google’s Pet Memory forgot who my cats are
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Google’s Pet Memory forgot who my cats are

One of the best things my smart home does is help me care for my pets, and security cameras are particularly useful for keeping track of my many critters. But t…

Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit
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Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit

On August 6th, the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center lost radar and communications for around two hours. The outage disrupted more than 1,100 flights…

ChatGPT is getting a dedicated mode for teens
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ChatGPT is getting a dedicated mode for teens

OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof. The launch comes amid …

Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generation
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Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generation

OpenAI and CodeAI are partnering to help students build AI literacy, think critically about AI, and develop the skills to use and shape it responsibly.…

Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections
Labs

Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections

ChatGPT for Teens helps teens learn, think critically, and use AI with confidence, with stronger built-in protections, healthy-use features, and additional cont…

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
Research

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate …